Join us this month as we celebrate Matariki — the Māori New year

Join us this month as we celebrate
Matariki — the Māori New year — with

City
Talks: Tikanga in Architecture — a future with us and for
us, a panel kōrero featuring five emerging
architectural designers, artists and thinkers on Monday 19
June, 6pm, at City Gallery Wellington.

At the crest of a
cycle of change, we look back whilst striding confidently
into the future — asking, what might the future of a truly
bicultural Aotearoa look like? Emerging Māori architects
and architectural graduates discuss what the future of our
built environment needs to be: beautiful, inclusive, safe,
equitable and providing a platform for generations to come.

The panel is convened by Elisapeta Heta, Architectural
Graduate, Ngātiwai, Waikato Tainui. The panel will
comprise:

• This kōrero acknowledges
the recent loss of pivotal thinker, architect and kaitiaki
Rewi Thompson, his significant contribution to the built
environment, to the education of architectural students and
work with indigenous communities around the world. The
discussion also looks to the future with the recent signing
of Te Kawenata o Rata — bringing together a formal
relationship between The New Zealand Institute of Architects
and Ngā Aho.

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